agent-stocktake

agent-stocktake is a skill for Claude Code from shimo4228/claude-harness. It costs 166 tokens per session (4,821 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review of the agent definitions stored in Claude Code's configuration, checking their descriptions, instructions, age, and overlap with other tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide whether each agent should be kept, improved, updated, merged, changed into a skill, dissolved, or retired.
Why use it?
It helps identify agents that cost attention, contain outdated guidance, duplicate one another, or should be replaced by a simpler skill.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to decide whether each agent should be kept, improved, updated, merged, changed into a skill, dissolved, or retired.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shimo4228/claude-harness/agent-stocktake
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add shimo4228/claude-harness --skill agent-stocktake
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shimo4228/claude-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 166 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,821 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00166 $0.04821
Opus 5 $0.00083 $0.02410
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00964
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00482

Measured 3d ago against content hash a75d6fa4fe22, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-stocktake scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/__init__.py, scripts/agent_evidence.py, tests/test_agent_evidence.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Enumerates other installed skillslowAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

find ~/.claude/agents -name "*.md" -newermt "$(jq -r .evaluated_at ~/.claude/skills/agent-stocktake/results.json)"

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

skills/agent-stocktake/SKILL.md · 314 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 314 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

agent-stocktake — Agent Definition Quality Audit

Evaluate every agent definition under ~/.claude/agents/*.md and assign each a verdict: Keep / Improve / Update / Merge / Demote to skill / Dissolve / Retire. The audit unit is the file, but the cost unit is split across two layers — that split is the reason this skill exists as a third sibling next to skill-stocktake and rules-stocktake.

Design note — the hybrid cost model. A skill's cost is trigger pollution (probabilistic firing degrades selection); a rule's cost is residency (always loaded). An agent has both at once: its description is injected into every session via the "Available agent types" listing (residency, like a rule), while its body loads only when the agent is invoked (invocation, like a skill — but triggered by Claude's delegation judgment, not by description matching against the user's words). So the description is audited on residency density and the body on invocation quality, with different questions for each layer.

Design note 2 — edits are applied in-session. Same reasoning as rules-stocktake: no improvement engine exists for agent definitions, and the corpus is ~20 small files — delegation would be overengineering. The handoff exception is Demote to skill (creating a skill is skill-creator's job).

Modes ($ARGUMENTS)

Argument Behavior
none / full Read and evaluate every agent definition (default)
changed Re-evaluate only files whose mtime is newer than results.json's evaluated_at; carry the rest forward from the ledger

changed detects changes inline (no script):

find ~/.claude/agents -name "*.md" -newermt "$(jq -r .evaluated_at ~/.claude/skills/agent-stocktake/results.json)"

As in rules-stocktake, the Phase 1 integrity checks always run over the full set — retiring a skill or hook silently breaks a reference inside an unmodified agent body, and mtime cannot see that. Any agent whose reference check (Step 3 below) newly fails joins the re-evaluation set. The script has no changed mode either, for a different reason: the near-duplicate pairs and the residency total are set properties, so a partial corpus would give wrong numbers rather than fewer ones.

Read the full file on GitHub · 314 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago Changed a75d6fa4fe22
  2. 4d ago Changed · -2 lines efb26a1e8c6c
  3. 9d ago First seen · 316 lines · 166 tokens per session scan A c92951140e35

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agent-stocktake is a skill published in the GitHub repository shimo4228/claude-harness (3 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 166 tokens to every session and 4,821 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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